Dušan Bajević

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Dušan Bajević (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Бајевић, Greek: Ντούσαν Μπάγεβιτς; born 10 December 1948, in Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina) is a Bosnian Serb football manager and former football player.

He began his carrier in Velez Mostar. He played almost 400 games for Velez where he scored 170 goals. He stayed in Velez from 1967-1975 before going to AEK Athen where he won the Greek championship twice. He came back to Velez in 1981 and stayed to 1983 before retirering. During his carrier he was together with Slobodan Santrac the best goalscorer in the Yugoslav league season 69/70. He also played for Yugoslavia in the 1974 FIFA World Cup where he scored a hattrick against Zaire. He scored 29 times in 37 games Yugoslavia between 1970-1977. After ending his football carrier in 1983 he took over as coach for Velez. He led the team to win the Kup Marsala Tite in 1986 by defeating Dinamo Zagreb 3-1 in the final. The next season Velez came second and Bajevic went to Grecce to coach AEK Athen.

He is one of the most controversial figures in the history of the AEK Athens FC team. He was a successful player, loved by AEK's fans. He joined the team in 1978 along with other great players of the era and won two championships and one cup title. He was also the league's top scorer during the season 1980-1981.

He took over AEK's managerial position in 1988. In his first year, he managed to lead the team to an unexpected championship title after ten years, since the rivals Olympiakos and Panathinaikos had teams that were considered superior. He also won three consecutive leagues (1992,1993,1994). In 1996, he moved to Olympiakos, bringing great fan hostility upon himself.

While he was Olympiakos' manager, Olympiakos won their first championship in 1997 after ten years, and became champions for three consecutive times. In 1999, Olympiakos won the Double and, for the first time in their history, reached the UEFA Champions League quarter finals.

He returned to AEK in 2002 and the fans were divided among those who accepted him and those who hated him. The latter part of the fans made his life a living hell. On a match day against Iraklis, he decided he had enough and with no prior warning left the bench and resigned while the game was still in first half. As the AEK coach, in 2002-03 AEK became the first team to collect six ties out of six games in the Champions League group phase and ended up at third position. A notable match was the 2-2 draw against Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.

In 2004, he returned to Olympiakos, where he won the double again. Also, his team got very close to the second round of the Champions League by collecting ten points, however the defeat against Liverpool FC with 3-1 in the last game stopped them not making it to the next round. Olympiakos went as far as the fourth round of the UEFA Cup. Despite these good results, he quit, mainly due to the pressure from the fans who were not satisfied with the team's way of playing.

On May 25, 2006 Bajević became the coach of the former European Cup champion Red Star Belgrade.

FK Crvena Zvezda - Current Squad
1 Ranđelović | 3 Anđelković | 4 Pantić | 5 Trajković | 6 Biševac | 7 Milijaš | 9 Đokić | 10 Krivokapić | 11 Perović | 13 Tutorić | 14 Trišović | 15 Joksimović | 17 Georgiev | 18 Tadeu | 19 Suzuki | 20 Purović | 21 Gueye | 22 Banović | 24 Miladinović | 26 Adamović | 27 Rašković | 28 Lečić | 30 Basta | 31 Radivojević | 32 Milovanović | 33 Ailton | 35 Castillo | Manager: Bajević